From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,8143b93889fe9472 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.180.24.228 with SMTP id x4mr42622wif.4.1359687428147; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:57:08 -0800 (PST) Path: i11ni32292wiw.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.139.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newspeer1.nac.net!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:14:24 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <8dfcf819-e1d0-4578-a795-a4bf724b5014@googlegroups.com> <1mr198uopixbw$.c81fe8oczrwv.dlg@40tude.net> <7e0f4106-9a87-4602-9098-125e920d9d47@googlegroups.com> <510667a9$0$9504$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="da91dd38436bbbf5b448e21e8f29aa94"; logging-data="29420"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+djzd9s5YGMddjOiK9yBmr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: <510667a9$0$9504$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jl6uJ1E+i5m33qkWAsNTMvVpsfQ= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2013-01-28T16:14:24+01:00 List-Id: Le 28/01/2013 12:57, Georg Bauhaus a écrit : > I wonder what will be the effect on working in the > programming profession of a general limit on line > lengths that is, say, <= 100 characters: I have seen coding standards that limited the line length to 72 characters, due to historical (punch cards!) reason. The code was quite horrible to read. OTOH, a sensible limit is a good thing. My own personal taste is 120 characters. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr